ambrosian.

Brit.

/amˈbrəʊzɪə/,

/amˈbrəʊʒə/, U.S.

/æmˈbroʊʒə/

Forms: also with capital initial.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin ambrosia.

Etymology: < classical Latin ambrosia food of the gods, fabled healing plant or its juice, Artemisia maritima, Dysphania botrys, houseleek, antidote to poison, in post-classical Latin also wood sage (in glossaries, 14th cent. or earlier in British sources) < ancient Greek ἀμβροσία elixir of life, food of the gods, drink of the gods, perfume of the gods, unguent of the gods, in Hellenistic Greek also (in religious rites) mixture of water, oil and various fruits, Artemisia maritima, Dysphania botrys, antidote, use as noun of feminine of ἀμβρόσιος immortal, divine < ἄμβροτος immortal ( < ἀ- a- prefix⁶ + βροτός mortal < the same Indo-European base as murder n.¹) + -ιος , suffix forming adjectives. Compare earlier ambrose n., ambrosie n.Parallels in other European languages. Compare Anglo-Norman ambros , ambrose wood sage (13th cent. or earlier), Anglo-Norman ambrosye , Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French †ambrosie denoting various plants, in early use wood sage (13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), food of the gods (15th cent.), something delicious (1589), Anglo-Norman ambrois , ambroys , ambroyse , Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French, French †ambroise denoting various plants, in early use wood sage (13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), food of the gods (1480), Middle French, French ambroisie food of the gods (end of the 15th cent.), denoting various plants (1540), something delicious (late 18th cent.). Compare also Old Occitan ambrozia , denoting a plant (c1250), Spanish ambrosía (1490 denoting a plant, 1534 denoting the food of the gods, 1646 (in the passage translated in quot. 1685 at sense 2b) in uncertain sense, perhaps ‘a perfumed drink’), Portuguese ambrosia , denoting the food of the gods (c1543), Italian ambrosia (14th cent. denoting both a plant and the food of the gods), and Dutch †ambrosia food of the gods (1561; now superseded by the derivative ambrozijn ), Middle High German ambrosia , German Ambrosia (13th cent. denoting a plant, 18th cent. denoting the food of the gods). Specific senses. In sense 6 after German Ambrosia (1836 in this sense: J. Schmidberger Beitr. z. Obstbaumzucht u. z. Naturgeschichte der den Obstbäumen schädlichen Insekten IV. 219).

I. Mythological and related uses.

1. Chiefly Classical Mythology. The food, drink, or anointing oil of the gods, often having the property of conferring immortality.Ambrosia was most usually considered as the food of the gods, and nectar the drink (see nectar n. 1a), but examples of the reverse frequently occur in both Greek and English literature.

a. The food of the gods; divine food.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > food of the gods

ambrosieOE

ambrosia1509

ambrosec1600

amrita1784

1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) cviii. sig. Dd.viii^v For to kepe thy body and thy soule, amende the to the ende that thou maye tast of this herbe that is called ambrosia [Fr. ambroisia].

1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. aj^v The sweete Ambrosia and Nectar wherwith the goddes are fedde.

1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 34 But he vpon ambrosia daily fed, That grew in Eden.

1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 13 The gods eat Ambrosia, and drink Nectar.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. The Ambrosia is commonly represented as the solid food of the gods.

1822 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater 87 I had heard of it as I had of manna or of ambrosia.

1909 W. Lindsey Severed Mantle v. 57 A picture of the gods on Mount Olympus, seated among the clouds, eating ambrosia, and drinking nectar from gold cups.

2006 P. Schollmeier Human Goodness iii. 78 We would be gods, and we could pass our time..sipping nectar and munching ambrosia.

b. The drink of the gods; divine drink.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > types or qualities of beverage > [noun] > mythical drink

water of lifec1350

nectar1555

ambrosia1567

nectar dew1601

poppy tea1709

1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest Ep. Ded. sig. Aij^v Whose bread is Nectar, and drink Ambrosia, a sugred and confect kinde of Wine.

1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. iv. 59 These Divine immortalising drinks, Nectar and Ambrosia.

1733 Terræ Filius's Speech 24 You dwell in Ætherial Mansions among the Gods, and..drink Nectar and Ambrosia till you are as Bewzy, as you commonly are with your own Terrestrial Ale.

1794 T. Maurice Indian Antiq. IV. 1046 The period of her terrestrial sojourning and probation being over, she drank ambrosia, and became immortal.

1850 J. Weir Lonz Powers I. xxviii. 316 The gods..drank ambrosia in the very presence of Venus herself.

1921 Jrnl. U.S. Artillery June 595 Perhaps the ambrosia of Paradise is served in paper cups.

2007 Church Times 2 Mar. 16/4 The Douro wines I tasted..will probably be at their best when I hope I shall be sipping celestial ambrosia.

c. The anointing oil of the gods.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > food of the gods > food supposedly similar to

ambrosia1610

the world > matter > constitution of matter > oiliness or greasiness > [noun] > an unguent > of the gods

ambrosia1610

1610 J. Mason Turke v. iii. sig. K2^v I..like Thetis sonne, When he was oynted with Ambrosia, Am more then fire-proofe.

1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xix. 375 And pour'd divine Ambrosia in his Breast.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xviii. 236 Her lovely face She with ambrosia purified.

1823 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 167/1 The figure is naked, a little under the size of life, and occupied in pouring ambrosia on its hair.

1901 A. S. Way tr. Apollonius of Rhodes Tale of Argonauts iv. 168 With ambrosia [the Goddess] anointed his tender frame, to make him thereby Immortal.

1994 C. Classen et al. Aroma i. 45 Homer writes of Aphrodite visiting her fragrant temple in Cyprus to be anointed with ambrosia.

2. In extended use.

a. Any exquisite taste or smell; anything that tastes or smells exceptionally sweet or delightful. Also in figurative contexts.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [noun] > sweet thing

sweetnessc725

sweeta1300

nectary1598

ambrosia1605

1605 J. Marston Dutch Courtezan v. i. sig. G3^v Pleasure should haue a Cranes long necke, to relish de Ambrosia of Delight.

1620 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes xiii. sig. K3^v These cates are sweet Ambrosia to thy soule, And that, which fils the brimme of Mercies boule, Is dainty Nectar.

1734 J. Swift Strephon & Cloe in Beautiful Young Nymph 12 Venus-like, her fragrant Skin Exhal'd Ambrosia from within.

1823 T. De Quincey tr. ‘F. Laun’ King of Hayti in London Mag. Nov. 525/2 When a whole company had tasted the ambrosia of her lips.

1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks II. xiii. 86 The flavour of the grapes is ambrosia, which I take it for granted was something divine.

1913 G. M. Trevelyan Clio 74 Sun and water can make a steep bank of moss smell all ambrosia.

1975 New York 28 Apr. 8/2 And the soft-shell crabs and bay scallops—pure ambrosia.

2009 B. Edwards Breathless vii. 58 Beneath lay a pot of delights, honeyed with her ambrosia, open and ready.

†b. Perhaps: a perfumed or sweetly flavoured drink. Obsolete. N.E.D. (1884) records this sense; however, no further evidence has been found for it, and the following quots. may simply be instances of sense 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > other drinks > [noun]

Galianesc1386

tawnyc1430

Stygian liquor1638

cool-drink1667

pearl julep1680

ambrosia1685

content1699

amazake1727

carrot juice1772

arrowroot1822

fox-whelp1837

Badminton1845

bug juice1889

mahewu1936

Clamato1951

Arnold Palmer1991

Butterbeer1999

boba2000

1685 tr. B. Gracián y Morales Courtiers Oracle 201 Waters, which..smell of Physick, and they call them Ambrosia [Sp. ambrosía].

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Juice This Juice being well fermented and prepar'd with Clove, Cinnamon, &c., would prove an Ambrosia, that would not be esteem'd indifferent, by those who do not care to drink Water.

†c. Ancient History. A kind of oil or sweet liquid serving as a libation or otherwise used in religious rites. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > food and drink > drink > types or qualities of beverage > [noun] > perfumed drink

ambrosieOE

ambrosianie1600

ambrosia1697

1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. ii. ii. 180 They pour'd out before it a Libation call'd Ambrosia, which was a mixture of Water, Honey, and all sorts of Fruit.

1905 Trans. Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club 1902, 1903, 1904 53 It was a patriarchal custom to anoint stones or temples dedicated to divine worship with ambrosia, or sweet-scented oil.

d. North American. A fruit salad typically containing oranges and shredded coconut, now often mixed with cream and marshmallows. Also more fully ambrosia salad.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared fruit and dishes > [noun] > other fruit dishes

figee1381

garnadec1440

gayledea1450

strawberry cream1523

strawberry shortcake1523

amber pudding1695

fufu1740

tum tum1790

poi1798

fig-cake1837

compote1845

ambrosia1867

summer pudding1875

schalet1884

charoset1885

angels' food1891

stuffed olive1897

chartreuse1900

crisp1916

guacamole1920

fruit cocktail1922

pimiento olive1925

fruit cup1931

crumble1947

matoke1959

turon1972

guac1983

bumbleberry1991

1867 M. M. Barringer Dixie Cookery 62 Ambrosia. Grate the white part of the cocoanut, sweeten with a little sugar, and place in a glass bowl, in alternate layers with pulped oranges.

1931 Brazil (Indiana) Daily Times 22 Sept. 3/5 Ambrosia Salad. Halve four large seedless oranges... Dice one banana... Toss together with one and one-half cups diced sliced Hawaiian pineapple... Mix with mayonnaise fluffed with whipped cream... Sprinkle with coconut.

1992 Village Voice (N.Y.) 7 Apr. 51/1 A variety of church supper salads,..from simple cole slaw to an ambrosia compounded of sour cream, mandarin oranges, coconuts, and other fruits.

2016 Tampa Bay (Florida) Times (Nexis) 4 May 2 Her favorite homemade treat was the ambrosia salad her mom made at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

II. Botanical uses.

3. Any of several aromatic plants used in herbalism, including a goosefoot, Dysphania botrys, and the European ragweed Ambrosia maritima (cf. sense 4). Cf. ambrose n. 1. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > names applied to various plants > [noun]

heatha700

beeworteOE

leversc725

springworteOE

clotec1000

halswortc1000

sengreenc1000

bottle?a1200

bird's-tonguea1300

bloodworta1300

faverolea1300

vetchc1300

pimpernel1378

oniona1398

bird's nest?a1425

adder's grassc1450

cockheada1500

ambrosia1525

fleawort1548

son before the father1552

crow-toe1562

basil1578

bird's-foot1578

bloodroot1578

throatwort1578

phalangium1608

yew1653

chalcedon1664

dittany1676

bleeding heart1691

felon-wort1706

hedgehog1712

land caltrops1727

old man's beard1731

loosestrife1760

Solomon's seal1760

fireweed1764

desert rose1792

star of Bethlehem1793

hen and chickens1794

Aaron's beard1820

felon-grass1824

arrowroot1835

snake-root1856

firebush1858

tick-seed1860

bird's eye1863

burning bush1866

rat-tail1871

lamb's earsa1876

lamb's tongue plant1882

tar-weed1884

Tom Thumb1886

parrotbeak1890

stinkweed1932

1525 tr. H. von Brunschwig Noble Experyence Vertuous Handy Warke Surg. sig. Civ^v/1 Take..ambrosia.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 950 The fragrant smell that this kinde of Ambrosia, or Oke of Cappadocia yeeldeth, hath mooued the Poets to suppose that this herbe was meate and foode for the gods.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxvii. iv. 273 Ambrosia is a name that keepeth not to any one hearbe, but is common to many.

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. xiii. 64 The oyles of..ambrosia, of sage, and betony.

1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Ambrosia..an Herb called the Oak of Jerusalem.

1917 Chemist & Druggist 26 May 41/2 All these various ambrosias had one thing in common—a sweet smell.

2006 E. Small Culinary Herbs (ed. 2) 298 Chenopodium botrys L., ambrosia, is native to southern Europe, the Orient, and central Asia.

4. Botany. Any plant of the chiefly American genus Ambrosia (family Asteraceae); a ragweed (see ragweed n. 2b). Also (in form Ambrosia): the genus itself.The only European species of the genus, Ambrosia maritima, was one of the plants called ambrosia by herbalists.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Species Plantarum (1753) 987.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > other composite plants

wild sagea1400

yellow devil's-bita1400

white golda1425

cotula1578

golden cudweed1597

golden tuft1597

rattlesnake root1682

Cape tansy?1711

hawkbit1713

ambrosia1731

cabbage tree1735

hog's eye1749

Osteospermum1754

ox-tongue1760

scentless mayweed1800

old man's beard1804

ox-eye1818

echinacea1825

sheep's beard1836

shepherd's beard1840

cat's-ear1848

goatweed1869

silversword1888

khaki bush1907

venidium1937

khaki bos1947

Namaqualand daisy1963

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Ambrosia The Species are;..2. Ambrosia; Maritima... Taller unsavoury Sea-Ambrosia. 3. Ambrosia; Canadensis... The tallest Canada Ambrosia.

1814 J. Bigelow Florula Bostoniensis 221 Ambrosia elatior L. Tall Ambrosia. Roman Wormwood... A troublesome weed in cultivated grounds, hardly entitled to the character, which its name might imply.

1990 National Gardening Mar. 8/3 Gardeners fight back with curbside borders of salt-tolerant artemisia species—and Nature fights back with highway borders of ambrosia (better known as ragweed).

2007 Plains Anthropol. 52 114/1 Species of Artemisia (sage) and Ambrosia (ragweed) are fairly common.

III. Zoological and ecological uses.

5. Pollen, esp. after it has been collected by honeybees, mixed with nectar and saliva, and stored as food for workers and brood; = bee-bread n. 2.

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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [noun] > honey

honey dropa1350

ambrosia1609

1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie i. sig. A3 They gather with the one nectar, with the other ambrosia.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. The Ambrosia..if not speedily spent, corrupts and turns sowr.

1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xx. 183 Whether a bee had collected its ambrosia from one or more..species of flowers.

1909 M. W. Morley Bee People (new ed.) 57 The pollen is really the flour from which she makes her bee-bread, or ambrosia.

2011 L. Roberts Some Like It Real 74 She conserves Every last drop Of her sweetened ambrosia. Then straight away to her hive She returns.

6. A layer of fungal cells and tissue lining the tunnels of certain wood-boring beetles (see ambrosia beetle n. at Compounds), and used by them as a source of food.In quot. 1840 perhaps used with reference to sense 5.

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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > parts of

pileus1760

hat1775

rind1788

spherule1796

Rhizomorpha1802

stipe1821

peridium1823

umbo1836

ambrosia1840

holdfast1841

rhizomorph1848

peridiole1857

trama1857

pileole1858

pileolus1858

byssus1866

rhabdus1866

conidiophore1874

appressorium1897

1840 J. Loudon & M. Loudon tr. J. Schmidberger in tr. V. Köllar Treat. Insects iii. 257 I consider this as a kind of Ambrosia, on which the hatched larvæ feed.

1843 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (ed. 6) I. 302 The larvæ..there feed on a white powdery substance, which he [sc. Schmidberger] calls ambrosia, and supposes to be prepared by the female from the sap.

1890 Insect Life 2 280 In 1844 Th. Hartig had already stated that the ‘Ambrosia’ of Schmidberger is nothing but a fungus which he called Monilia candida, and that this fungus constitutes exclusively the food of the Xyloborus larva.

1922 Glasgow Herald 16 Dec. 4 But some beetles that bore in fresh wood have discovered how to grow a mould that yields what is called ‘ambrosia’.

1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xv. 373 The timber beetles are usually called ambrosia beetles because they cultivate fungi, commonly called ambrosia, on which they feed.

2004 T. Kirisits in F. Lieutier et al. Bark & Wood Boring Insects (2007) 195 The ‘ambrosia’ consists of a dense, palisade-like layer of hyphae, on the top of which numerous conidia are formed in chains.

Compounds

ambrosia beetle n. any of various small beetles that excavate tunnels in wood and live there in a symbiotic relationship with ambrosia fungi, which they transport, cultivate, and feed upon.Ambrosia beetles are now assigned to subfamilies Scolytinae and Platypodinae of the weevil family Curculionidae.Also called pinhole borer.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Curculionoidea or Rhyncophora > family Scolytidae > member of (bark-beetle)

timber-capricorn1803

timber-beetle1841

bark-borer1859

bark-beetle1862

pin borer1890

scolytid1890

timberman1894

engraver beetle1896

ambrosia beetle1897

pinhole borer1916

shot-hole borer1916

1897 H. G. Hubbard in Some Misc. Results Work Div. Entomol. (U.S. Dept. Agric. Div. Entomol.: New Ser. Bull. No. 7) 9 The term ambrosia beetles is here used as a convenient one to distinguish..the timber-boring Scolytidæ, which push their galleries deeply into the wood, and which feed upon a substance called ‘ambrosia’.

1963 L. R. Batra in Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 66 226 Such fungal repositories were of wide occurrence among ambrosia beetles. These structures are here referred to as mycangia.

2012 Free Press (Kinston, N. Carolina) 28 Mar. 33/1 One of these pests, the granulated ambrosia beetle.., was introduced into South Carolina from Asia in the early 1970s.

ambrosia fungus n. any of the fungi, typically monilioid ascomycetes, which live in a symbiotic relationship with ambrosia beetles; (also, as a mass noun) the growth of such fungi on which the beetles feed (= sense 6).

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1897 H. G. Hubbard in Some Misc. Results Work Div. Entomol. (U.S. Dept. Agric. Div. Entomol.: New Ser. Bull. No. 7) 25 The entire surfaces of the walls in the brood chamber are plastered over with ambrosia fungus.

1947 Amer. Naturalist 81 312 Most fascinating are the discussions of fungous gardens of ants and ambrosia fungi in beetle galleries.

2008 D. S. Hill Pests Crops Warmer Climates ix. 347/1 The female beetle in many species has special body cavities (called mycangia) in which fungal spores or conidia of the ‘ambrosia’ fungus are carried and kept alive.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	ambrosia
释义	ambrosian. Brit. /amˈbrəʊzɪə/, /amˈbrəʊʒə/, U.S. /æmˈbroʊʒə/ Forms: also with capital initial. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin ambrosia. Etymology: < classical Latin ambrosia food of the gods, fabled healing plant or its juice, Artemisia maritima, Dysphania botrys, houseleek, antidote to poison, in post-classical Latin also wood sage (in glossaries, 14th cent. or earlier in British sources) < ancient Greek ἀμβροσία elixir of life, food of the gods, drink of the gods, perfume of the gods, unguent of the gods, in Hellenistic Greek also (in religious rites) mixture of water, oil and various fruits, Artemisia maritima, Dysphania botrys, antidote, use as noun of feminine of ἀμβρόσιος immortal, divine < ἄμβροτος immortal ( < ἀ- a- prefix⁶ + βροτός mortal < the same Indo-European base as murder n.¹) + -ιος , suffix forming adjectives. Compare earlier ambrose n., ambrosie n.Parallels in other European languages. Compare Anglo-Norman ambros , ambrose wood sage (13th cent. or earlier), Anglo-Norman ambrosye , Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French †ambrosie denoting various plants, in early use wood sage (13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), food of the gods (15th cent.), something delicious (1589), Anglo-Norman ambrois , ambroys , ambroyse , Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French, French †ambroise denoting various plants, in early use wood sage (13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), food of the gods (1480), Middle French, French ambroisie food of the gods (end of the 15th cent.), denoting various plants (1540), something delicious (late 18th cent.). Compare also Old Occitan ambrozia , denoting a plant (c1250), Spanish ambrosía (1490 denoting a plant, 1534 denoting the food of the gods, 1646 (in the passage translated in quot. 1685 at sense 2b) in uncertain sense, perhaps ‘a perfumed drink’), Portuguese ambrosia , denoting the food of the gods (c1543), Italian ambrosia (14th cent. denoting both a plant and the food of the gods), and Dutch †ambrosia food of the gods (1561; now superseded by the derivative ambrozijn ), Middle High German ambrosia , German Ambrosia (13th cent. denoting a plant, 18th cent. denoting the food of the gods). Specific senses. In sense 6 after German Ambrosia (1836 in this sense: J. Schmidberger Beitr. z. Obstbaumzucht u. z. Naturgeschichte der den Obstbäumen schädlichen Insekten IV. 219). I. Mythological and related uses. 1. Chiefly Classical Mythology. The food, drink, or anointing oil of the gods, often having the property of conferring immortality.Ambrosia was most usually considered as the food of the gods, and nectar the drink (see nectar n. 1a), but examples of the reverse frequently occur in both Greek and English literature. a. The food of the gods; divine food. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > food of the gods ambrosieOE ambrosia1509 ambrosec1600 amrita1784 1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) cviii. sig. Dd.viii^v For to kepe thy body and thy soule, amende the to the ende that thou maye tast of this herbe that is called ambrosia [Fr. ambroisia]. 1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. aj^v The sweete Ambrosia and Nectar wherwith the goddes are fedde. 1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 34 But he vpon ambrosia daily fed, That grew in Eden. 1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 13 The gods eat Ambrosia, and drink Nectar. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. The Ambrosia is commonly represented as the solid food of the gods. 1822 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater 87 I had heard of it as I had of manna or of ambrosia. 1909 W. Lindsey Severed Mantle v. 57 A picture of the gods on Mount Olympus, seated among the clouds, eating ambrosia, and drinking nectar from gold cups. 2006 P. Schollmeier Human Goodness iii. 78 We would be gods, and we could pass our time..sipping nectar and munching ambrosia. b. The drink of the gods; divine drink. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > types or qualities of beverage > [noun] > mythical drink water of lifec1350 nectar1555 ambrosia1567 nectar dew1601 poppy tea1709 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest Ep. Ded. sig. Aij^v Whose bread is Nectar, and drink Ambrosia, a sugred and confect kinde of Wine. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. iv. 59 These Divine immortalising drinks, Nectar and Ambrosia. 1733 Terræ Filius's Speech 24 You dwell in Ætherial Mansions among the Gods, and..drink Nectar and Ambrosia till you are as Bewzy, as you commonly are with your own Terrestrial Ale. 1794 T. Maurice Indian Antiq. IV. 1046 The period of her terrestrial sojourning and probation being over, she drank ambrosia, and became immortal. 1850 J. Weir Lonz Powers I. xxviii. 316 The gods..drank ambrosia in the very presence of Venus herself. 1921 Jrnl. U.S. Artillery June 595 Perhaps the ambrosia of Paradise is served in paper cups. 2007 Church Times 2 Mar. 16/4 The Douro wines I tasted..will probably be at their best when I hope I shall be sipping celestial ambrosia. c. The anointing oil of the gods. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > food of the gods > food supposedly similar to ambrosia1610 the world > matter > constitution of matter > oiliness or greasiness > [noun] > an unguent > of the gods ambrosia1610 1610 J. Mason Turke v. iii. sig. K2^v I..like Thetis sonne, When he was oynted with Ambrosia, Am more then fire-proofe. 1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xix. 375 And pour'd divine Ambrosia in his Breast. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xviii. 236 Her lovely face She with ambrosia purified. 1823 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 167/1 The figure is naked, a little under the size of life, and occupied in pouring ambrosia on its hair. 1901 A. S. Way tr. Apollonius of Rhodes Tale of Argonauts iv. 168 With ambrosia [the Goddess] anointed his tender frame, to make him thereby Immortal. 1994 C. Classen et al. Aroma i. 45 Homer writes of Aphrodite visiting her fragrant temple in Cyprus to be anointed with ambrosia. 2. In extended use. a. Any exquisite taste or smell; anything that tastes or smells exceptionally sweet or delightful. Also in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [noun] > sweet thing sweetnessc725 sweeta1300 nectary1598 ambrosia1605 1605 J. Marston Dutch Courtezan v. i. sig. G3^v Pleasure should haue a Cranes long necke, to relish de Ambrosia of Delight. 1620 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes xiii. sig. K3^v These cates are sweet Ambrosia to thy soule, And that, which fils the brimme of Mercies boule, Is dainty Nectar. 1734 J. Swift Strephon & Cloe in Beautiful Young Nymph 12 Venus-like, her fragrant Skin Exhal'd Ambrosia from within. 1823 T. De Quincey tr. ‘F. Laun’ King of Hayti in London Mag. Nov. 525/2 When a whole company had tasted the ambrosia of her lips. 1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks II. xiii. 86 The flavour of the grapes is ambrosia, which I take it for granted was something divine. 1913 G. M. Trevelyan Clio 74 Sun and water can make a steep bank of moss smell all ambrosia. 1975 New York 28 Apr. 8/2 And the soft-shell crabs and bay scallops—pure ambrosia. 2009 B. Edwards Breathless vii. 58 Beneath lay a pot of delights, honeyed with her ambrosia, open and ready. †b. Perhaps: a perfumed or sweetly flavoured drink. Obsolete. N.E.D. (1884) records this sense; however, no further evidence has been found for it, and the following quots. may simply be instances of sense 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > other drinks > [noun] Galianesc1386 tawnyc1430 Stygian liquor1638 cool-drink1667 pearl julep1680 ambrosia1685 content1699 amazake1727 carrot juice1772 arrowroot1822 fox-whelp1837 Badminton1845 bug juice1889 mahewu1936 Clamato1951 Arnold Palmer1991 Butterbeer1999 boba2000 1685 tr. B. Gracián y Morales Courtiers Oracle 201 Waters, which..smell of Physick, and they call them Ambrosia [Sp. ambrosía]. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Juice This Juice being well fermented and prepar'd with Clove, Cinnamon, &c., would prove an Ambrosia, that would not be esteem'd indifferent, by those who do not care to drink Water. †c. Ancient History. A kind of oil or sweet liquid serving as a libation or otherwise used in religious rites. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > types or qualities of beverage > [noun] > perfumed drink ambrosieOE ambrosianie1600 ambrosia1697 1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. ii. ii. 180 They pour'd out before it a Libation call'd Ambrosia, which was a mixture of Water, Honey, and all sorts of Fruit. 1905 Trans. Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club 1902, 1903, 1904 53 It was a patriarchal custom to anoint stones or temples dedicated to divine worship with ambrosia, or sweet-scented oil. d. North American. A fruit salad typically containing oranges and shredded coconut, now often mixed with cream and marshmallows. Also more fully ambrosia salad. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared fruit and dishes > [noun] > other fruit dishes figee1381 garnadec1440 gayledea1450 strawberry cream1523 strawberry shortcake1523 amber pudding1695 fufu1740 tum tum1790 poi1798 fig-cake1837 compote1845 ambrosia1867 summer pudding1875 schalet1884 charoset1885 angels' food1891 stuffed olive1897 chartreuse1900 crisp1916 guacamole1920 fruit cocktail1922 pimiento olive1925 fruit cup1931 crumble1947 matoke1959 turon1972 guac1983 bumbleberry1991 1867 M. M. Barringer Dixie Cookery 62 Ambrosia. Grate the white part of the cocoanut, sweeten with a little sugar, and place in a glass bowl, in alternate layers with pulped oranges. 1931 Brazil (Indiana) Daily Times 22 Sept. 3/5 Ambrosia Salad. Halve four large seedless oranges... Dice one banana... Toss together with one and one-half cups diced sliced Hawaiian pineapple... Mix with mayonnaise fluffed with whipped cream... Sprinkle with coconut. 1992 Village Voice (N.Y.) 7 Apr. 51/1 A variety of church supper salads,..from simple cole slaw to an ambrosia compounded of sour cream, mandarin oranges, coconuts, and other fruits. 2016 Tampa Bay (Florida) Times (Nexis) 4 May 2 Her favorite homemade treat was the ambrosia salad her mom made at Thanksgiving and Christmas. II. Botanical uses. 3. Any of several aromatic plants used in herbalism, including a goosefoot, Dysphania botrys, and the European ragweed Ambrosia maritima (cf. sense 4). Cf. ambrose n. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > names applied to various plants > [noun] heatha700 beeworteOE leversc725 springworteOE clotec1000 halswortc1000 sengreenc1000 bottle?a1200 bird's-tonguea1300 bloodworta1300 faverolea1300 vetchc1300 pimpernel1378 oniona1398 bird's nest?a1425 adder's grassc1450 cockheada1500 ambrosia1525 fleawort1548 son before the father1552 crow-toe1562 basil1578 bird's-foot1578 bloodroot1578 throatwort1578 phalangium1608 yew1653 chalcedon1664 dittany1676 bleeding heart1691 felon-wort1706 hedgehog1712 land caltrops1727 old man's beard1731 loosestrife1760 Solomon's seal1760 fireweed1764 desert rose1792 star of Bethlehem1793 hen and chickens1794 Aaron's beard1820 felon-grass1824 arrowroot1835 snake-root1856 firebush1858 tick-seed1860 bird's eye1863 burning bush1866 rat-tail1871 lamb's earsa1876 lamb's tongue plant1882 tar-weed1884 Tom Thumb1886 parrotbeak1890 stinkweed1932 1525 tr. H. von Brunschwig Noble Experyence Vertuous Handy Warke Surg. sig. Civ^v/1 Take..ambrosia. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 950 The fragrant smell that this kinde of Ambrosia, or Oke of Cappadocia yeeldeth, hath mooued the Poets to suppose that this herbe was meate and foode for the gods. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxvii. iv. 273 Ambrosia is a name that keepeth not to any one hearbe, but is common to many. 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. xiii. 64 The oyles of..ambrosia, of sage, and betony. 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Ambrosia..an Herb called the Oak of Jerusalem. 1917 Chemist & Druggist 26 May 41/2 All these various ambrosias had one thing in common—a sweet smell. 2006 E. Small Culinary Herbs (ed. 2) 298 Chenopodium botrys L., ambrosia, is native to southern Europe, the Orient, and central Asia. 4. Botany. Any plant of the chiefly American genus Ambrosia (family Asteraceae); a ragweed (see ragweed n. 2b). Also (in form Ambrosia): the genus itself.The only European species of the genus, Ambrosia maritima, was one of the plants called ambrosia by herbalists.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Species Plantarum (1753) 987. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > other composite plants wild sagea1400 yellow devil's-bita1400 white golda1425 cotula1578 golden cudweed1597 golden tuft1597 rattlesnake root1682 Cape tansy?1711 hawkbit1713 ambrosia1731 cabbage tree1735 hog's eye1749 Osteospermum1754 ox-tongue1760 scentless mayweed1800 old man's beard1804 ox-eye1818 echinacea1825 sheep's beard1836 shepherd's beard1840 cat's-ear1848 goatweed1869 silversword1888 khaki bush1907 venidium1937 khaki bos1947 Namaqualand daisy1963 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Ambrosia The Species are;..2. Ambrosia; Maritima... Taller unsavoury Sea-Ambrosia. 3. Ambrosia; Canadensis... The tallest Canada Ambrosia. 1814 J. Bigelow Florula Bostoniensis 221 Ambrosia elatior L. Tall Ambrosia. Roman Wormwood... A troublesome weed in cultivated grounds, hardly entitled to the character, which its name might imply. 1990 National Gardening Mar. 8/3 Gardeners fight back with curbside borders of salt-tolerant artemisia species—and Nature fights back with highway borders of ambrosia (better known as ragweed). 2007 Plains Anthropol. 52 114/1 Species of Artemisia (sage) and Ambrosia (ragweed) are fairly common. III. Zoological and ecological uses. 5. Pollen, esp. after it has been collected by honeybees, mixed with nectar and saliva, and stored as food for workers and brood; = bee-bread n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [noun] > honey honey dropa1350 ambrosia1609 1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie i. sig. A3 They gather with the one nectar, with the other ambrosia. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. The Ambrosia..if not speedily spent, corrupts and turns sowr. 1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xx. 183 Whether a bee had collected its ambrosia from one or more..species of flowers. 1909 M. W. Morley Bee People (new ed.) 57 The pollen is really the flour from which she makes her bee-bread, or ambrosia. 2011 L. Roberts Some Like It Real 74 She conserves Every last drop Of her sweetened ambrosia. Then straight away to her hive She returns. 6. A layer of fungal cells and tissue lining the tunnels of certain wood-boring beetles (see ambrosia beetle n. at Compounds), and used by them as a source of food.In quot. 1840 perhaps used with reference to sense 5. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > parts of pileus1760 hat1775 rind1788 spherule1796 Rhizomorpha1802 stipe1821 peridium1823 umbo1836 ambrosia1840 holdfast1841 rhizomorph1848 peridiole1857 trama1857 pileole1858 pileolus1858 byssus1866 rhabdus1866 conidiophore1874 appressorium1897 1840 J. Loudon & M. Loudon tr. J. Schmidberger in tr. V. Köllar Treat. Insects iii. 257 I consider this as a kind of Ambrosia, on which the hatched larvæ feed. 1843 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (ed. 6) I. 302 The larvæ..there feed on a white powdery substance, which he [sc. Schmidberger] calls ambrosia, and supposes to be prepared by the female from the sap. 1890 Insect Life 2 280 In 1844 Th. Hartig had already stated that the ‘Ambrosia’ of Schmidberger is nothing but a fungus which he called Monilia candida, and that this fungus constitutes exclusively the food of the Xyloborus larva. 1922 Glasgow Herald 16 Dec. 4 But some beetles that bore in fresh wood have discovered how to grow a mould that yields what is called ‘ambrosia’. 1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xv. 373 The timber beetles are usually called ambrosia beetles because they cultivate fungi, commonly called ambrosia, on which they feed. 2004 T. Kirisits in F. Lieutier et al. Bark & Wood Boring Insects (2007) 195 The ‘ambrosia’ consists of a dense, palisade-like layer of hyphae, on the top of which numerous conidia are formed in chains. Compounds ambrosia beetle n. any of various small beetles that excavate tunnels in wood and live there in a symbiotic relationship with ambrosia fungi, which they transport, cultivate, and feed upon.Ambrosia beetles are now assigned to subfamilies Scolytinae and Platypodinae of the weevil family Curculionidae.Also called pinhole borer. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Curculionoidea or Rhyncophora > family Scolytidae > member of (bark-beetle) timber-capricorn1803 timber-beetle1841 bark-borer1859 bark-beetle1862 pin borer1890 scolytid1890 timberman1894 engraver beetle1896 ambrosia beetle1897 pinhole borer1916 shot-hole borer1916 1897 H. G. Hubbard in Some Misc. Results Work Div. Entomol. (U.S. Dept. Agric. Div. Entomol.: New Ser. Bull. No. 7) 9 The term ambrosia beetles is here used as a convenient one to distinguish..the timber-boring Scolytidæ, which push their galleries deeply into the wood, and which feed upon a substance called ‘ambrosia’. 1963 L. R. Batra in Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 66 226 Such fungal repositories were of wide occurrence among ambrosia beetles. These structures are here referred to as mycangia. 2012 Free Press (Kinston, N. Carolina) 28 Mar. 33/1 One of these pests, the granulated ambrosia beetle.., was introduced into South Carolina from Asia in the early 1970s. ambrosia fungus n. any of the fungi, typically monilioid ascomycetes, which live in a symbiotic relationship with ambrosia beetles; (also, as a mass noun) the growth of such fungi on which the beetles feed (= sense 6). ΚΠ 1897 H. G. Hubbard in Some Misc. Results Work Div. Entomol. (U.S. Dept. Agric. Div. Entomol.: New Ser. Bull. No. 7) 25 The entire surfaces of the walls in the brood chamber are plastered over with ambrosia fungus. 1947 Amer. Naturalist 81 312 Most fascinating are the discussions of fungous gardens of ants and ambrosia fungi in beetle galleries. 2008 D. S. Hill Pests Crops Warmer Climates ix. 347/1 The female beetle in many species has special body cavities (called mycangia) in which fungal spores or conidia of the ‘ambrosia’ fungus are carried and kept alive. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1509
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